Ethics in the digital workplace
Digitisation and automation technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), can affect working conditions in a variety of ways and their use in the workplace raises a host of new ethical concerns.
Swedish truck manufacturer Volvo Trucks will hire 200 employees at their plant in Tuve, Gothenburg. The newly hired employees will initially be contracted for six months but the management hopes to hire them permanently. The reason for employing the new workers on temporary contracts is because of the uncertain market according to factory manager Johan Jinhage. Volvo Trucks have rehired employees in several rounds recently (see fact sheets 14583, 15027, 15296, 15456)
Eurofound (2010), Volvo Trucks, Business expansion in Sweden, factsheet number 70840, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/70840.